Victory Loan Campaign, c.1941
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of a car decorated in advertisements for a Victory Loan campaign during World War Two. View is of the front of the car. A picture of Winston Churchill is attached to the front of the Union Jack flag. Above the picture reads "GIVE US THE TOOLS". This negative was found in a box of Marjorie Ruddy negatives and has started to degrade. There is no information about the negative.
- Notes
- Victory Loan campaigns were established by the Government of Canada during the World Wars to raise funds for the war effort.
Marjorie Georgina Ruddy (1908-1980) was a prominent Whitby photographer and the only commercial photographer in Whitby during the 1930s and 1940s. Marjorie was the official photographer for the Whitby Police Department starting in the 1930s and as a result took many photographs of car accidents, fingerprints and crime scenes. (Station Gallery. Whitby Through the Lens Photographs by Marjorie G. Ruddy, 1935-1948. Whitby: Station Gallery, 2010.) - Date of Original
- c.1941
- Dimensions
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Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_636A
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8799555926846 Longitude: -78.9421397143554
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Victory Loan Campaign, c.1941, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_636A.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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